6eb57c37-6356-41ed-be93-d275c87833e1 National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Biodiversity Data Manager +353-1-8882000 0 National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland NPWS_data@npws.gov.ie 2025-07-16T13:01:04 ISDI Metadata Profile 1.2 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25 https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29900 Irish National Grid Site Specific Conservation Objectives SSCO 2025-04-01T00:00:00 site-specific-conservation-objectives https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ Site-specific conservation objectives aim to define favourable conservation condition for Habitats Directive Annex I habitats, Annex II species at a site level and the SPA special conservation interest "wetlands and waterbirds". This project relates to the following Annex I habitats and Annex II species at specific SAC sites and SPA special conservation interest "wetlands and waterbirds"at specific SPA sites: - Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time (1110) - Estuaries (1130) - Mudflats and sandflats not covered by sea water at low tide (1140) - *Coastal lagoons (1150) - Large shallow inlets and bays (1160) - Reefs (1170) - Annual vegetation of drift lines (1210) - Perennial vegetation of stony banks (1220) - Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic coasts (1230) - Salicornia and other annuals colonising mud and sand (1310) - Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae) (1330) - Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimae) (1410) - Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea fruticosi) (1420) -Embryonic shifting dunes (2110) - Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes') (2120) - *Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ('grey dunes') (2130) - *Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum (2140) - *Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea) (2150) - Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae) (2170) - Humid dune slacks (2190) - Machairs (* in Ireland) (21A0) - *Turloughs (3180) - Watercourses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation (3260) - European dry heaths (4030) - Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands (5130) - Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae (6130) - *Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion) (7220) - *Active raised bogs (7110) - *Limestone Pavements (8240) - Submerged or partially submerged sea caves (8330) - Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles (91A0) - *Bog woodland (91D0) - *Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae) (91E0) - *Taxus baccata woods of the British Isles (91J0) - Marine Community Types - Geyer's Whorl Snail - Vertigo geyeri (1013) - Narrow-Mouthed Whorl Snail - Vertigo angustior (1014) - Desmoulins Whorl Snail - Vertigo moulinsiana (1016) - Freshwater Pearl Mussel - Margaritifera margaritifera (1029) - White Clawed Crayfish - Austropotamobius pallipes (1092) - Sea Lamprey - Petromyzon marinus (1095) - Brook Lamprey - Lampetra planeri (1096) - River Lamprey - Lampetra fluviatilis (1099) - Lesser Horseshoe Bat - Rhinolophus hipposideros (1303) - Bottlenose Dolphin - Tursiops truncatus (1349) - Harbour Porpoise - Phocoena phocoena (1351) - Otter - Lutra lutra (1355) - Grey Seal - Halichoerus grypus (1364) - Common / Harbour Seal - Phoca vitulina (1365) - Petalwort - Petalophyllum ralfsii (1395) - Killarney Fern - Trichomanes speciosum (1421) - Slender Naiad - Najas flexilis (1833) - Nore Freshwater Pearl Mussel - Margaritifera durrovensis (1990) Favourable conservation condition of a habitat is achieved when: - its natural range, and area it covers within that range, is stable or increasing, and - the ecological factors that are necessary for its long-term maintenance exist and are likely to continue to exist for the foreseeable future, and - the conservation condition of its typical species is favourable Habitat mapping is used to help define the area and range parameters for conservation objectives Favourable conservation condition of a species is achieved when: - population dynamics data on the species concerned indicate that it is maintaining itself on a long term basis as a viable component of its natural habitats, and - the natural range of the species is neither being reduced nor is likely to be reduced for the foreseeable future, and - there is, and will probably continue to be, a sufficiently large habitat to maintain its populations on a long-term basis Mapping of species distribution and suitable habitat is used to help define distribution, population and range parameters for conservation objectives. This is a national dataset that consists of several resources: - Shapefiles with spatial SSCO data - GeoPackage file with spatial SSCO data - CSV, Excel, JSON and SQLite files with tabular SSCO data Site-specific conservation objectives outline attributes with targets, which define favourable condition for a habitat or species at a particular site. They are used for appropriate assessment of plans or projects. In addition, they can provide useful information for conservation management planning. The maintenance of habitats and species within Natura 2000 sites at favourable conservation condition will contribute to the overall maintenance of favourable conservation status of those habitats and species at a national level. National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Biodiversity Data Manager +353-1-8882000 0 National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland NPWS_data@npws.gov.ie Protected sites GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 GEMET 2008-12-05 protection of animals, protection of species, protection of birds, wildlife protection, terrestrial ecosystem, biodiversity, ecological, habitat, ecology, animal species, GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 GEMET 2012-07-20 Special Area of Conservation, SAC, Special Protection Area, SPA, National Parks and Wildlife, NPWS, biodiversity, habitats, species, habitat protection, species, protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Plan National Parks and Wildlife Service NPWS 2015-07-27 Ireland ISO 3166 ISO Country List 2008-12-13 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 50000 environment biota -10.692047 -5.92267 51.41047 55.47124 0 1014 An Ordnance Datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) is used for the datum. Malin Ordnance Datum Derivation of vertical height or depth (in metres) In the Republic of Ireland, OD for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland is Malin Ordnance Datum: the Mean Sea Level (MSL) at Portmoor Pier, Malin Head, County Donegal, between 1960 and 1969. 5731 EPSG Projection 5731 - Malin Head height Metres Derivation of Altitude OD based on Mean Sea Level, Malin Head 1960-1969 Shapefile, Geopackage, CSV, Excel, JSON, SQLite various zip National Parks and Wildlife Service Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Biodiversity Data Manager +353-1-8882000 - National Parks and Wildlife Service 90 North King Street Dublin 7 D07 N7CV Ireland NPWS_data@npws.gov.ie.ie https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/SSCO_March2025_shp.zip zip Site Specific Conservation Objectives ESRI shapefiles Download shapefiles of Site Specific Conservation Objectives (SSCO) https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/SSCO_March2025_gpkg.zip zip Site Specific Conservation Objectives ESRI GeoPackage file Download GeoPackage file of Site Specific Conservation Objectives (SSCO) https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/files/SSCO_Tabular_Open_Data_v1_2_20250701.zip zip Site Specific Conservation Objectives ESRI tabular data files Download tabular data files of Site Specific Conservation Objectives (SSCO) INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected sites INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.2 2014-04-17 The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. true COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation 2010-12-08 Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services true This spatial dataset and any associated web services is currently presented in Irish National Grid projection. The data presented in the dataset has been derived from a number of source datasets. More detailed metadata for each layer of habitat/species information is available in the download file.